RE: characters supported in MySQL fields

2001-07-07 Thread Don Read
On 07-Jul-01 Michael Collins wrote: > I understand that any ASCII character can be stored within any of the > non-numeric type fields. Does this mean just characters 1-255? > > What happens if I try to import a non-ASCII character, let say, into > a VARCHAR field? Is it discarded or will I sim

Re: characters supported in MySQL fields

2001-07-07 Thread Tonu Samuel
Michael Collins wrote: > I understand that any ASCII character can be stored within any of the > non-numeric type fields. Does this mean just characters 1-255? No, MySQL supports also multibyte character sets used in Asian countries. This means much wider range than 256. > What happens if I